Track 5, "The Theatre of Passing Clouds", in my work-in-progress album "New Beginning": spontaneously composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS and in Logic Pro in the evening of 7 November 2023, with a final mix in Logic Pro in the evening of 8 November 2023; posted on SoundCloud on 8 November 2023 (before the release of the album as a whole).

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, was created in PowerPoint and annotated in Mac OS Preview on 19 July 2023 (and 5 January 2024, changing the year from 2023 to 2024 in the brackets of the album title).

Duration: 4:51 minutes
Tempo: 100 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: C

Digital instruments used, in the order of playing and recording:

1. Guitar - Acoustic
2. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Arpeggiated - 70s Synth Arp (Soft Attack)
3. Keyboard - Lullaby Vibes
4. Strings - Cello
5. Drums - Acoustic - SoCal
6. Strings - Modern Strings

The Theatre of Passing Clouds

I have always admired music, of diverse styles. Like most of us, I have tried learning to play a few instruments at a basic level in my teenage. But it is only now, in the 21st century, that modern software allows anyone to fool around being the composer, the designer of a whole composition, simpler or more complex, organising together the parts of the various instruments - and to hear the results of this experimentation or inspiration instantly! That is how I have recently begun enjoying the distraction of attempts at composing during my leisure, discovering an amazing dimension of life, and art, perhaps the most intangible, heightening and hypnotising one, and the closest to the soul... (21 August 2017) ... Forgot to mention: music is for sharing - that's why we are all here! (4 September 2017)